Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60
The world's largest machine that can move is Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60. It is located in mining regions of Germany East Germany
From technical point of view it is steel giant, which is 502 metres long, 202 metres wide, 80 metres high and 11000 ton heavy. To get an idea of how long this machine is, if the Empire State Building 60 meters shorter than the F60. So the machine is also called 'Lying Eiffel Tower
Liebherr T 282B dumptruck
In 2004 Liebherr company introduced T282B becoming the largest dumptruck in the world. The massive T282B can haul 400 tons of material. Empty it weights 261 tons and stands 7.4 meters tall. Drivers compare it to driving four bedroom house. Precision mechanics takes six weeks to assemble T282B. The T282B has a monster 90 liter diesel engine that can consume 60 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers , producing 3650 horsepower.
Mammoet truck
Machine does not have to be long like train or have big tires like Liebherr dumptruck to carry large loads. If there is a need to transport hundreds tons weight and tens meters high building it can be transported by one of the most unusual truck ever build. This truck is manufactured by company specializes in transporting huge loads. It is achieved by using self-propelled modular transporters. These units can be joined together in a veriety of configurations depending on the weight and size of load. All the wheels can turn three hundred sixty degrees together or separately, so the transporters can drive in any direction. And everything comes to just a single point of controll, so only one person can operate the system with one or hundreds modules.
These are only several examples. Please post some other examples of huge machines used in the industry.
Have you ever heard about road trails inAustralia
Have you ever heard about road trails in
As far as land machines are concerned the only one I heard of if monster trucks.
ReplyDeleteMonster truck is a vehicle resembling a pick-up, however, it is much larger.
Arose after rebuilding of another pick-up, or specially built from scratches.
It has a very high suspension and large wheels, much higher than those popular in classic cars.
Those cars are used for shows and races, usually involving the destruction of ordinary passenger cars.
I think such show it is worth seeing.
Have you ever heard about road trails in Australia?
ReplyDeleteIf you meant "road trains" - sure, but I didn't know they where popular in Australia.
A road train consists of a relatively conventional tractor unit, but instead of pulling one trailer or semi-trailer, the road train pulls two or more of them. Australia has the largest and heaviest road-legal road trains in the world. In some parts they can consist of even 4 trailers and are more than 50m long.
Sorry everyone, it should be 'road trains' instead of 'road trails' in the second question. Thanks Jakub :)
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI6njiZT98E&feature=related
Its hard to imagine, that this Liebherr truck is actually very economical, considering amount of load it could handle.
ReplyDeleteOh, amazing vehicles! I've never seen before so big machines like these.
ReplyDeleteI’ve found some other examples. Just take a look at those two:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler-transporter
Stig drives one of them...
ReplyDeleteIt was Liebherr T 282B dumptruck.. or mayby it was Bagger_288 or something else similar:P
Germans during II World War were planning to build the biggest tanks in the world. There would be 20 times bigger then Tiger tanks and will take abroad about 100 people.
ReplyDeleteFirst was called Landkreuzer P-1000 Ratte, second Landkreuzer P-1500 Monster.
Here is short discription from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1500_Monster
Great idea with this Mammoet truck. Is every part controlled on it's own before connecting with the rest? I mean if there's a need for few more to tranport something can they get there on wheels? Or must be transported using i.e. Antonov :)
ReplyDeleteI bet the bridge was closed due to high costs of maintenance. If it ws in Poland, propably it would be sold in parts in scrap metal wethers :)
The biggest one I "saw" was the LHC("is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.") this is too much to say I saw it. I was there, I saw the building complexes but it is impossible to see it underground. You have to know people. Physicist from all over the world are fighting to get there!
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